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Can I use a 128gb USB stick to update Bios?

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I'm using a SanDisk Ultra Flair 128gb, I have it formated to FAT32 using a 3rd party tool. I dont know if using a drive over 32gb would be a issue or not. Thanks

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1 minute ago, RottenApache said:

I'm using a SanDisk Ultra Flair 128gb, I have it formated to FAT32 using a 3rd party tool. I dont know if using a drive over 32gb would be a issue or not. Thanks

Usually it doesn't let you format drives that large as FAT32, which is what a UEFI update tool generally wants. I wouldn't recommend it and you're better off driving to your local any store and grabbing a 16GB/32GB or smaller drive instead.

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Yeah thats what I thought, not what i wanted to hear but thanks anyway 😀

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6 minutes ago, RottenApache said:

Yeah thats what I thought, not what i wanted to hear but thanks anyway 😀

You can try it without spending money first. If the drive isn't formatted right then the BIOS simply won't see the drive. Better to give it a spin before running out.

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4 minutes ago, Lurick said:

You can try it without spending money first. If the drive isn't formatted right then the BIOS simply won't see the drive. Better to give it a spin before running out.

is that the worst that can happen? i dont want to brick a £300 motherboard because i didn't want to spend £5 on a thumb drive

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6 minutes ago, micha_vulpes said:

For Automated ( recovery or one button flash)  you often need a fat32 Stick which caps out at 32GB usually (or at least windows gets fussy about fat 32 on larger disks)

 

Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte ( dont know about others) will generally also have some sort of specialized tool to update bios through either the bios itself, or a preboot environment that you boot through the bios ( Q flash, M-flash, etc. )

 

On my MSI board I just toss the file on one of my internal drives and boot to bios, then select Mflash. It reboots to the utility where you can browse your disks for the file and flashes from there.

 

If it cant read large drives, it wont do anything. It wont show as a device containing information to the bios.

If it can read it, its all good and should work. If Anything fails, Most boards ( but not all) have bios flashback/ one button flashback.

 

 

Thank you, i just checked the board and it has a flashback button, so i will try the 128gb and if not go buy the 16/32gb one. 

I will be doing this tomorrow so will update then if the drive worked or not. 😁

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10 minutes ago, RottenApache said:

Thank you, i just checked the board and it has a flashback button, so i will try the 128gb and if not go buy the 16/32gb one. 

I will be doing this tomorrow so will update then if the drive worked or not. 😁

Just partition the flash drive, make a 16 or 32GB partition, leave the rest unallocated if you want, will work fine.

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Do remember that initializarion type MBR or GPT, can also be important, for the BIOS/uefi to see the pendrive. 

if it don't see the pendrive, try to initialize it in different type ( GPT <-> MBR ), and format it again to FAT32 

   
 
 
 
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Board came with latest bios installed LOL🤣 no update needed. Sorry for wasting peoples time.

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